Doctor Who News

All the latest Doctor Who news collected from around the web. Our sources include Twitter, Facebook, Google Alerts and Doctor Who Magazine, press releases from the BBC, Big Finish, AudioGo and others, as well as our readers! If you have a news story, please let us know!

News is compiled and edited by Christian Cawley, with help from Philip Bates. Our news team consists of Christian, Philip, Andrew Reynolds and Meredith Burnett.

Well would you credit it – just days after John Simm reveals he would be happy to return to Doctor Who, The Telegraph features an interview with HarrietJonesMPforFlyDaleNorth actress Penelope Wilton, who says prettymuch the same thing! There’s a lot more to the interview than a bit of Doctor Who referencing, mind, with particular amusement…

Would you blink if you saw a Weeping Angel? If the answer is yes, then be careful when you pick up this week’s copy of Doctor Who Adventures. There are a couple of dangerous Weeping Angels on the cover – plus a free spinning Angel and stickers for you to play with. Inside the…

John Simm has spoken off his willingness to return to Doctor Who as the Master in this weekends newspapers. However the star of Life on Mars and the new Channel 4 drama The Devil’s Whore was unprepared for the impact his appearance would have on the life of his son, despite being aware of the…

Doctor Who Magazine Special: In Their Own Words – Volume 5 For almost 30 years, Doctor Who Magazine has documented the making of this unique television series, interviewing every major player, be they actors, directors, producers, designers, writers… even monsters! This Special Edition gathers together the best of these interviews, as the cast and crew…

(UPDATED) Not well-known, a rising star, accomplished stage and TV character actor – sounds like David Tennant in 2005, doesn’t it? It is in fact a description of James Frain, the British actor who bears a passing resemblance to new showrunner Steven Moffat – and Frain has seen his odds slashed from 40-1 to 20-1…

The Christmas lights at Teddington will be switched on by a traveller from beyond time itself this year – Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison! Joined by Olympic gold medal-winning oarsman Andrew Triggs-Hodge from Molesey Boat Club, Peter will switch on and herald the official start of Christmas shopping on November 27th, with entertainment beginning at…

If the two minutes we saw tonight of David Tennant and David Morrissey in The Next Doctor are anything to go by – and it seems that we saw the pre-credit sequence – then we’re in for a fun Christmas 2008! A Christmas card-perfect scene, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" without the robot Santa’s and…